Created under P.D. 826, the Sangguniang Bayan is the law-making body of the municipality. It has ten (10) members, eight (8) of whom are elected and two (2) are ex-office members. The Municipal Vice Mayor is the Chairman and Presiding Officer of the Sangguniang Bayan. The ex-official members are the Liga ng mga Barangay (LMB) President who represents the interest of the Barangay Councils Federation League of the municipality and the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) Federation President who represents the interests of the league of Sangguniang Kabataan in the entire municipality. The Sangguniang Bayan holds its regular session every Friday of the week. It has been organized into twenty-one (21) standing committees, namely : 1) Finance and Appropriations, 2) Women and Family, 3) Human Rights, 4) Youth and sports development , 5) Peace and Order & Public safety, 6) Health and Social Welfare, 7) Agriculture, 8) Environmental Protection, 9) cooperatives, 10) Ordinances and Legal Matters, 11) Education and Protection, 12) Good Government, Public Ethics, and Accountability, 13) Public Utilities and Facilities, 14) Market and Slaughterhouse, 15) Commerce and Industry , 16) Public Works, 17) Housing and Land Utilization, 18) Barangay Affairs, 19) Tourism, 20) Rules and Privileges, and 21) Games and Amusement. Each committee is headed by a Chairman and with two members. In order to establish effective interaction with barangay officials and residents to properly identify their problems and needs and eventually to enable the local government to focus its development efforts for the immediate resolution of these problems, each member of the Sangguniang Bayan is assigned to his/her own district.